WIC supplemental nutrition program for infants, pregnant women, operating in New York but could be endangered amid lengthy shutdown
Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, newsday.com
The association "anticipates that WIC has enough funding on hand to remain open for the short term — likely one to two weeks," Georgia Machell, president and CEO of the organization, said in a statement on its website. "The timing of this shutdown at the start of the new fiscal year puts WIC at risk of rapidly running out of funds."